MSIT-431 Web Page for Fall 2012


Office at Room M468
Phone 1-8175
ahaddad@eecs.northwestern.edu

Notices Relevant to the Course

Course Outline


Course schedule:

Week #01 on September 22, 2012
Week #02 on September 29, 2012
Week #03 on October 06, 2012
Week #04 on October 13, 2012
Week #05 on October 20, 2012
Week #06 on October 27, 2012; MidTerm
Week #07 on November 03, 2012
Week #08 on November 10, 2012
Week #09 on November 17, 2012 course meets in the afternoon
Week #10 on December 01, 2012


Homeworks


Homework #1: due September 29, 2012

Postpone the "Additional Problem" to Homewrok #2


Homework #2: due October 06, 2012

Postpone problem 4 to Homewrok #3


Homework #3: due October 13, 2012

Include Problem 4 from Homework #2.


Homework #4: due October 20, 2012


Midterm

Midterm is set for Saturday (first hour only) October 27, 2012
Open books and notes (and (very important) minds as well)

Sample Midterm

Review session is set for Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 6:00 to 9:00(?) pm in Room Tech L160
(end time is open depending on your questios).

Those of you who are free from 5:00 pm I am available for individual or group consultations.


Homework #5: due November 3, 2012
Problems 4-69, 4-95, 4-116, 4-119, 4-162, 4-176 in M&R textbook


Homework #6: due November 10, 2012


Homework #7: due November 19, 2011

Correlation sheet for Problem 4

Solution of Homework #7

Solved Correlation sheet for Problem 4


Homework #8: due December 1, 2012


Course Notes

Course notes are posted in the form as in a textbook in pdf format.

Notes for Week #1 Pages 1-25

(pages 20-25 defer to Week #2)


Notes for Week #2 Pages 26-43

(pages 40-43 defer to Week #3)


Notes for Week #3 Pages 44-64

(pages 55-57 and 62-64 defer to Week #4)


Notes for Week #4 Pages 65-84

(pages 78-84 defer to Week #5)


Notes for Week #5 Pages 85-99

(pages 94-99 defer to Week #6)


Notes for Week #6 Pages 100-118

(pages 105-118 defer to Week #7)


Notes for Week #7 Pages 119-140

(pages 119-140 defer to Week #8)

Spreadsheet for computing P(X=k), where X is the queue size
The computation uses 6 seconds. The steady state analytical result is shown on row 6007


Notes for Week #8 Pages 141-162

(pages 152-162 defer to Week #9)

Power Point Slides for Week #8

Spreadsheet with the two dice example in the notes

In the spreadsheet the dice whose outcome is X is in column B, the other dice is in column A,
and the sum Y is in column C.

The means, standard deviations and correlation are obtained using the Excel functions.
Also shown is the regression line information and its plot.


Notes for Week #9 Pages 163-181

(parts of pages 176-181 defer to Week #10)


Notes for Week #10 Pages 182-205


Notes for Week #11 Pages 206-222

You may cover this material on your own. It provides applications to networks.



Evaluation

There will be weekly homework, can be turned in individually or by group.
The homework grade is used to break a tie if one falls between two grades.
Hence it is assigned a weight of just 10% of the grade.

There is an open book MidTerm in class (during week 6), and is worth 40% of the grade.

There is a take-home final to be turned in a few days after the end
of the course. It should be done individually and is worth 50% of the grade

Final Exam

Final Exam

Due via email on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 8:30 am.

Submission formats: pdf, doc, docx, xlsx, and xls -- make sure you write explicitly the equations you are using, just in case the numeric answer is wrong.

If you have questions, the answers, if relevant, will be sent to the entire class.

As mentioned in class a problem like #11 is provided at no extra cost to you.
You do not need to solve it as you must solve ONLY 10 problems.
You lose points if you turn in 11 problems and increase my load by 10%.